2024-04-28 19:16:05
The Olympic flame of the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games in Paris 2024 was handed over to the organizers of the Olympics at a ceremony held at Athens’ historic white marble Panathinaikos Stadium.
According to Day.Az, the event was held in the presence of the head of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Greece, the President of the European Olympic Committees and member of the International Olympic Committee Spyros Kapralos, the head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee Tony Estangue, and other officials. At the end of the ceremony, the head of the NOC of Greece handed over the torch with the Olympic flame to Estanga.
The flame lit in Ancient Olympia was brought into the stadium by the Greek athlete Andigoni Drizmbioti, who in 2022 became a two-time European champion in race walking at distances of 20 and 35 km. She is also a bronze medalist at the 2023 World Championships. The last torchbearer to run along the stadium track at the finish line of the relay was the captain of the Greek men’s water polo team, Ioannis Fountoulis (Fauntoulis), who participated in the team at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and won a silver medal with his teammates at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. The altar of the Olympic flame was lit, and the actors playing the roles of priestesses and priests showed a choreographic composition.
At the end of the ceremony, the head of the Greek NOC received the Olympic flame from the High Priestess, actress Maria Mina, and handed it to Estanga.
The Olympic flame will “spend the night” at the French Embassy in the Greek capital, and on Saturday will leave for France on board the sailing ship “Belem”, recognized in this country as a historical monument. The sailboat is already in the port of Piraeus, where a small farewell ceremony will take place on Saturday. The fire will be delivered to Marseille on May 8. It is expected that about 150 thousand people will attend the ceremony to welcome him in the old port of Marseille.
The relay through France will last 68 days and will end with the lighting of the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Games on July 26. The Olympics will be held in Paris until August 11.
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